Happy Labor Day!
Turbine has announced it’s upcoming Book 9 expansion: The Siege of Mirkwood.
For those, such as myself, that don’t care much for the Legendary Item system, it appears that there will be some improvements coming. Other neat updates include henchmen, a level increase to 65 and more raids, normal group (6-player) and small (3-player) instances.
One thing I noticed is another 12-man raid. Should be interesting to see whether or not they’re planning on enforcing gear gateing this time around and, if they are, how stringently. Specifics are a bit light in the announcement, so I’ll be keeping an eye on their expansion site to see if they expand on any of their goals in coming weeks.
The Battered Shield 
September 8, 2009 at 4:45 am
It looks like the new raid will be radiance gated http://mmeow.net/2009/09/siege-of-mirkwood-video-sneak-peek/. I am not overly delighted about that but there does seem to be a lot of other good stuff in the expansion so on balance I am looking forward to it.